TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Gb2-25 is the 51st glyph from the beginning of side b, and 229 + 51 = 280 (counted from Ga1-1):

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
		84			38			134
Gb2-25	Gb2-26 (282)		Gb5-13	Gb5-14 (368)		Gb6-24 (407)	Gb6-25		Ga3-11
	86			40			136
	262

But 280 is clearly the number which should indicate the end of 10 months of moon light, 40 weeks. The exceedingly long 7th feather probably indicates 'week'.

We cannot conclude that the 262 glyph long season which follows indicates the evening star aspect of Venus. Haú in Gb2-25 should have its place at position 280 anyhow.

To look for the parallel day (280) in H will therefore not result in any conclusion regarding Venus, I think. So we are back to Gb1-21:

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
		62			312
Gb6-25	Gb6-26	62	Gb8-30 (472)	Ga1-1 (2)	312	Gb1-21 (315)

It could be the first glyph of those 270 following 314. Counting 315 + 269 = 584 (and beginning with Gb8-30), we will have 584 - 472 = 112 glyphs at the beginning of side a, which means we will arrive at henua in Ga5-2:

glyph numbers are counted from Ga1-1
15
	Ga4-23	Ga4-24	Ga4-25	Ga4-26	Ga4-27
	106	107	108	109	110
16				*4 27 = 108 4 * 28 = 112**
	Ga5-1	Ga5-2	Ga5-3
	111	112	113
17
	Ga5-4	Ga5-5	Ga5-6	Ga5-7	Ga5-8	Ga5-9
	114	115	116	117	*118 = 4 29.5**	119

Alas, once again moon is interfering. 108 is, maybe, a better number for Venus. No, because sun seems to have occupied 108 (= 6 * 18), and 27 is a dark time for the sun king ('one more' than his last station of ruling). The double mama preceding Ga4-25 could mean the 'opening' of a dark sun season.

There simply is no room for Venus. We must abort this mission. I have to take away the redmarked last piece in the glyph dictionary page:

The evidence we have examined by comparisons between G and H indicates that the strange glyph Gb1-21 very well might represent Venus:

Gb1-21

From such a perspective the two ovals hanging down of course must be the morning (right and higher) and evening (left and lower) 'stars'. And at bottom there is a similar division without any ovals, which ought to be the two periods when Venus is invisible.

If Gb1-21 represents Venus, then we can expect a coordination with the cycles of the moon, and there is a fortnight from the turnaround at Gb1-7 (with ordinal number 8 * 29.5 + 1, counted from Gb8-30):

	13
Gb1-7		Gb1-21
14

The question then must be, is it the morning star season which begins with Gb1-21 or is it the evening star? We will try to use, once again, the H text in order to search for the answer, it is time for a new detour.